if you could only have four ratios to evaluate a company what would they be? This is a fun question that is popular in investing circles. For a laugh I’ll take my shot at it, what would you pick?
CenturyTel, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, is an integrated communications company engaged primarily in providing an array of communications services, including local and long distance voice, Internet access and broadband services. The Company operates in 25 states located within the continental United States.
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This article originally appeared on The DIV-Net May 15 2009.
This week we are reviewing Bristol-Myers Squibb as a possible stock acquisition. To do so we will use the Buffett four filters we discussed in a previous article.
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Originally published on: Div-Net
After much searching I found a stock screener for Canadian stocks (more on this in another post). I was able to assemble a Graham style screener with the following criteria:
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I did a search and could not for the life of me find a link to a prebuilt Google screener for Graham’s value investing system. So lets quickly build one:
Through the Graham series we said we would only consider companies that:
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Every day I pull a list of the insider traders then I shorten the list to be only buys done by roles that have a proven track record (see my previous post for a little on this). Finally I run an evaluation of the companies based on some of the ratios that Graham used to find companies that are cheap (See my earlier series on this).
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Current ratio is an important one; it shows us how the company will survive in the short term. As I mentioned earlier there are reasons why the company is currently cheap our job is to figure out why and also to build in a safety margin to make sure they are going to survive the reason they are so cheap.
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“To understand a business, figure out what results it is achieving, why it is getting those results, and what could happen to change what is causing those results.”
Charlie Munger
Questrade
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